An ocean of thoughts,earlier this blog was named as "Indian Sociology..my burst and commentary". This is because it was meant to express myself on some general observations clicking my mind about my milieu...the Indian milieu.
Subsequently a realisation dawned on that it was surging more as some breaking magma within . Arguments gave the heat to this molten hot matter which is otherwise there in each of us.
Hence the renaming.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Meaning of Complacency from ship manager's point of view

Meaning of Complacency from ship manager's point of view:
Until a few decades before, the business of sea carriage was availing
a greater autonomy to the seamen due to underdeveloped means of
communications. It was a commonplace to see poorer cargo care as the
Specialisation in this was not so intense. Ships, in those days, were
more a creation of an artist who made them to the best of living
standards- grand and luxurious accommodation, meant to elevate the
pains of a longing seafarer from his family in the rigours of green seas.
Cargo care was not so significant because charters had no means, such
as the communication technology of today, to know the condition of
cargo every day, or the very instant reporting of suffering cargo damage.
Ships had poor systems for cargo handling, less of proof-tested cargo
gear, and in the era of general cargo ships, most ships would strive
to load any cargo which came its way, to win the bread for the ship. The laws,
too, were not so stringent to check the sophistications of cargo
carriage.
As the wave of disastrous accidents surged on ocean surface, the laws
found route to indent into the freedom of Seafarers. The new breed of
seafarers which emerged in this era was the one who could help the
ship managers achieve flexibility to load anything by making the ship
look *compliant* with the laws. Those were the preferred seafarers by
the ship managers.
That same breed of seamen has today reached the shore manager jobs.
Complacency, incidentally, is an obsolete term for the word 'complisant' , meaning 'all abiding'
Further down the timeline, the noose of regulations tightened to check
dishonesty, perjury, and falsification, the Seafarers have started to
reduce occasions of violations of laws, both knowingly and
unknowingly. the ship owners are taking affect of new trends of the
business overall. The new breeds of sea going people are internet
connected and like to discuss on the social networks how they rejected the unlawful
propositions of their shrewd shipmanagers. They keep check on the
course of law court decision which is slowly exposing to one and all
to transparency demands paving in public governance. New Seafarers
discuss how the wrong-doer is often left abandoned by his own team
should the violation be detected by the governments; "He is made the scapegoat", they say. Only the actions
and conviction stay the truest companion of man's deeds. This is the
new age moral for corporate survival. In such a scenario, when a
seafarer expresses his displeasure to do something not conforming to
the law, the managers, who are ex-Seafarers from the previous era,
charge him of complacency, summing to mean , "someone who has refused
to work, has stopped working, has fulfilled compliance with all
regulations as what his paper records portray, and therefore an
undeserving seaman".